(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 24 - The Italian Partisan Association ANPI
on Friday chided Premier Girogia Meloni for not calling the 335
victims of the 1944 Ardeatine Cave massacres anti-fascists.
"The premier said the 335 martyrs of the Adreatine Caves were
killed 'only because they were Italians'. It is right to clarify
that, certainly, they were Italians, but they were chosen on the
basis of a selection that struck antifascists, Resistance
fighters, political opponents, and Jews," said ANPI.
"It behooves you to add that the list of some of those who, as
Giorgia Meloni said, were "barbarically massacred by the Nazi
occupying forces' was complied with the complicity of police
chief Pietro Caruso, of the interior minister of the (Nazi
puppet state) Republic of Salò Guido Buffarini Guidi, and the
war criminal Pietro Koch, all fascists".
Meloni responded by saying, in a press conference at the end of
the EU summit Friday: "I described them as Italians, what do you
mean, anti-fascists aren't Italians? I included everyone".
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Meloni chided for not calling Ardeatine victims anti-fascist
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